Color photograph of a U.S. Air Force Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star in flight over the mountains. The P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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Pilots and P-40 Warhawk aircraft of the 11th Fighter Squadron at Fort Glenn Army Air Base, Alaska, June 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A group of North American P-51 Mustang fighters from the 332nd Fighter Group take off from an airfield in Italy to escort heavy bombers. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
F-51D Mustang at Rogers Dry Lake at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station in 1955. (NASA Photograph.)
A P-47 Thunderbolt takes off for a bomber escort mission during World War II. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
B-24 Liberators of the 98th Bomb Group fly a low-level bombing mission against the oil refineries around Ploesti, Romania in August 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless flies over the battleship USS Washington (BB-56) during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, November 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A lone P-51 Mustang fighter flies with a formation of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers over England. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Model of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress being tested for ditching characteristics in Tank No. 2 at Langley Research Center. (NACA/NASA Photograph.)
Side view of the Consolidated A-11, an attack version of the Consolidated P-30 (PB-2) two-seat fighter aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)